: Mike man- this is AWESOME! It made my night. According to the
: translation software- these promise to be its most salient
: features:

: -No more strength to maneuver eskimo
: -No more summits, which impede the blanket

: I've been reading about early 20th century surrealists, and between
: translation software and the auto-generated spam thing of a
: couple years ago they'd absolutely DIE! Well, they're already
: dead, and whereas I kind of meant I would die laughing, they
: would probably do a Marcel Duchamp and die trying to find some
: way to get it into a fancy dancy museum show.

: Anyway- I have really bad Italian, but I think the two bullet
: points are more accurately translated as having a recessed
: rudder won't interfere with rolling, and all of the mechanism is
: covered.

: This system is only available on their kayaks, but this looks even
: easier to duplicate. The issue would be what if the metal (I
: know it's stainless steel and the fiberglass would likely break
: first, but) bent and left it unable to be retracted?

: m

Btw, I'm still toying with under-stern rudders for my catamaran-kayak, should be much lighter and hopefully somewhat less complex than over-stern rudders and they only need to be tiny since there are two.

Thing tracks like a train and leaning it does absolutely nothing at all, still tracks dead straight. It definately needs rudders.

Winter project.

Bill H.